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9-5 Guidance

01 May 2008
Issue: 7319 / Categories: Legal News , Procedure & practice , Profession
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News In Brief

The profession ethics helpline that offers guidance to solicitors is being extended to run from 9am to 5pm on weekdays. The service, which handles about 4,000 calls a month, previously ran from 11am until 1pm and 2pm to 4pm. It is being expanded by the Solicitors Regulation Authority in response to demand from solicitors. The most common queries to the helpline are about conflicts of interest and confidentiality and disclosure matters. Other topics in the top five are accounts rules, referral arrangements and retainer and relationship with client issues.

Issue: 7319 / Categories: Legal News , Procedure & practice , Profession
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Hugh James—Phil Edwards

Hugh James—Phil Edwards

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Freeths—Melanie Stancliffe

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Firm strengthens employment team with partner hire

DAC Beachcroft—Tim Barr

DAC Beachcroft—Tim Barr

Lawyers’ liability practice strengthened with partner appointment in London

NEWS
Ceri Morgan, knowledge counsel at Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP, analyses the Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Johnson v FirstRand Bank Ltd, which reshapes the law of fiduciary relationships and common law bribery
The boundaries of media access in family law are scrutinised by Nicholas Dobson in NLJ this week
Reflecting on personal experience, Professor Graham Zellick KC, Senior Master of the Bench and former Reader of the Middle Temple, questions the unchecked power of parliamentary privilege
Geoff Dover, managing director at Heirloom Fair Legal, sets out a blueprint for ethical litigation funding in the wake of high-profile law firm collapses
James Grice, head of innovation and AI at Lawfront, explores how artificial intelligence is transforming the legal sector
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